James Button

Autore di Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business

3+ opere 42 membri 4 recensioni

Sull'Autore

James Button made the finalists for the $30,000 Best Writing Award, presented for `a piece of published or produced work of outstanding clarity, originality and creativity by a Victorian writer¿ with his title Speechless A Year in My father's Business. (Bowker Author Biography)

Opere di James Button

Popolari Recenti

Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business (2012) 32 copie

Comeback: The Fall and Rise of a Football Club (2016) 9 copie

Patagonia (2019) 1 copia

Esplora le opere

Opere correlate

Jennifer Higdon: All Things Majestic (2017) 5 copie

Etichette

Traduzione delle etichette attiva

Informazioni generali

Sesso: male
Nazionalità: Australia

Utenti

Recensioni

Patagonia di James Button

Perfectly awful.

Segnalato

philcraigusa | Jul 10, 2023 |

Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business di James Button

A highly readable and often moving personal recollection of family life and Labor Party politics in recent Australian history.

Segnalato

Michele48 | 2 altre recensioni | Nov 26, 2014 |

Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business di James Button

James Button experienced a gentle midlife crisis. Instead of buying a red car and running away with his secretary he quit journalism and journeyed to Canberra, ostensibly to be Kevin Rudd's speechwriter. That did not work out and this book is the result. It rambles between topics such as the Australian Public Service, the Australian Labor Party and the author's father's long involvement with it. There is also a mixture of biography and autobiography. These topics are interesting but read more as a sequence of essays than as a coherent book. James Button changed career from journalism to public service (and later, grassroots ALP volunteer). Unfortunately, his public servant's circumspection overcame his journalist's need to reveal truth to the public. Even the biographical elements seem muted and restrained. As a consequence of this restraint, the book does not ultimately say much.… (altro)

Segnalato

questbird | 2 altre recensioni | Apr 3, 2013 |

Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business di James Button

Since I was attracted by the insider's point of view of the Kevin Rudd leadership style, I inevitably found the rest of Button's book underwhelming. My fault rather than his perhaps. I liked the sections about his short and unsuccessful attempts to write speeches for a Prime Minister who preferred to sit up until 3am writing his own. His autobiographical reflections were engaging too, but I found his account of life as a public servant rather turgid. Others may not, I suppose.

Segnalato

PhilipJHunt | 2 altre recensioni | Mar 31, 2013 |

Vedi altre recensioni